The “Wall Street Journal” published an article exposing the correspondence of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, in the shadow of his ongoing opposition to approving the hostage deal with Israel. In the messages delivered by the leader of the terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip and received by the newspaper, it appears that Sinwar encourages the killing of Palestinians in Gaza as this contributes to Israel’s harm in the world. The death of more civilians will be useful for achieving his military and political goals.
“The Israelis are exactly where we want them to be,” Sinwar wrote to senior Hamas officials who were engaged in negotiations for the hostage deal, along with Qatari and Egyptian officials, while pointing to the international criticism of the IDF’s activities in Gaza and the documentation by the world’s media of the extensive destruction in Gaza and his quote of the numbers of the dead as Hamas gives to the media.
Hamas claims at this time that more than 37 thousand Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, most of them civilians. The terrorist organization also claimed that almost 300 Palestinians were killed in the operation to rescue the four abductees.
In a message he sent to one of the leaders of Hamas, he said that – “These are necessary victims.”
In a letter that Sinwar sent to the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, after his three children were killed in April in an Israeli attack in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza, he wrote to him that the death of his children as well as of all the other Palestinians “will pour life into the veins of the nation, and will make it rise to its glory and to honor”.
The Wall Street Journal stated that Sinwar’s ultimate goal seems to be to achieve a permanent ceasefire, which would allow Hamas to declare a historic victory – after the terrorist organization “survived” Israel’s efforts to destroy it – and thus claim leadership over the entire Palestinian people.
According to the report, although Sinwar planned and carried out the surprise attack on October 7, early messages he sent to the parties involved in the negotiations testified that he was surprised by the brutality of his organization’s terrorists and the Palestinian looters who also infiltrated Israel, and the ease with which they committed atrocities against civilians. “Things got out of control.” , Sinwar wrote.
In the Wall Street Journal it was emphasized that although Sinwar seemed to fear more and more for his safety, his messages indicated that he began to sense that the creation was turning in favor of Hamas.
On February 19, Israel set a deadline for Hamas to agree to the deal before the month of Ramadan, and before ordering a ground operation in Rafah, Sinwar urged his colleagues in Hamas not to agree to concessions in the negotiations because – “the high number of civilian casualties in Gaza will create international pressure on Israel,” Sinwar wrote in his messages.
